Judges 18:14–20

Danites Take Micah’s Idols

¹⁴And the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their relatives, “Do you know that there are in these houses ^aan ephod and ¹household idols and a graven image and a molten image? So now, know what you should do.”

¹⁵Then they turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

¹⁶Now the 600 men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, were standing by the entrance of the gate.

¹⁷Then the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there, and took ^athe graven image and the ephod and household idols and the molten image. And the priest was standing by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.

¹⁸Now these had entered into Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod and household idols and the molten image. Then the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

¹⁹And they said to him, “Be silent; ^aput your hand over your mouth and come with us and be to us ^ba father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

²⁰And the priest’s heart was merry, and he took the ephod and household idols and the graven image and entered among the people.